monday, but that means they have to agree what that would be. it's nowhere near that. if you're interested in touring the capital capitol, you can't. if you're interested in visiting a national park, you can't. we'll see. leland: the government shutdown of 2018. you're looking live pictures of the united states senate as they gavel in and begin the work of reopening the government. republican senator cory gardner on if there is a deal in the works. this coming, of course, on the one year anniversary of president trump's inauguration. he calls it a gift from the democrats. we are going to ask the white house about that and look back at the year of the president's fir first. >> and rallies and marches in cities across the united states today, pushing for causes like protecting illegal immigrants, and furthering women's rights.

♪ >> and welcome to a special edition of america's news headquarters. i'm leland vittert live at the white house. we have the principal deputy white house press secretary standing by in just a minute. gillian, in some ways as much as the focus is here on the white house, it's just as much with you on capitol hill. gillian: absolutely, leland. there are thousands of people, they're down by the lincoln memorial today and the reflecting pool, just one of the cities here in washington, holding women's rallies. we'll go down there live in a few moments. so stick with us. our own caroline shively is standing by and she'll bring us the latest. both the house and senate working hard this weekend to try and come up with a deal to end the government shutdown that began last night. president trump took to twitter earlier this morning to weigh in on the shutdown, pointing the

finger at democratic lawmakers for failure to come to a deal. house democrats held a news conference just a few moments ago, peter doocy is live on capitol hill. >> gillian, i was surprised this morning standing outside of the door of the conference room where house republicans were meeting to hear laughter and applause coming from inside. i asked around the members who were there, just about everyone from the republican conference and why were things so loose and got the same answer over and over answer. republicans in the house think they did this job, they passed the cr. they think it's senate democrats who own this shutdown and the g.o.p. is also making a firm stance, they will not negotiate on daca with democrats until the government is reopened. >> i have been talking to them all the way through, a lot of them were texting with me. i will tell you inside the democratic conference, they are not happy about this because they understand, too, daca is

not shutting down, or have any problems until march and you already have a court case on it where they're filing, but our military is, our children's health insurance program is being shut down by schumer and all of these other items. >> the democratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer is claiming he tried to make a deal with the president yesterday that included a border wall and that president trump rejected it, but the white house legislative director is on the hill today, he says there was never an agreement and today, democrats are showing no sign of giving any ground in their position that they will not vote for a spending bill that does not include protection for daca recipients. >> i'm proud the house and senate democrat unity is insisting on a budget that supports our military and the domestic investments that keep our nation strong, and honors our values by protecting our dreamers. >> and pelosi just said that she is open to this shorter continuing resolution that would only go until february 8th, that

senator majority mitch mcconnell is now floating, however, she says she would only be open to it if it included a daca deal and right now, it does not seem like that is realistic. gillian. gillian: it's certainly not looking realistic from where ma many-- i'm sitting here today. we'll take you live to the house floor where speaker paul ryan is speaking. >> to say i'm going to shut down the government and i'm not going to pay our bills unless i get my way. it's a politics of idiocy, politics, paralysis, closed quotes. policy of idiocy, his words, not mine. one more quote from senator schumer in 2013 during that government shutdown. quote, we believe strongly immigration reform, we could say we're shutting down the government until you pass immigration reform, it would be governmental chaos, closed quote.

sadly, he had that right as well. mr. speaker, as we speak, furlough notices are going out to federal workers across the country. half of the defense department's civilian work force has been furloughed. training for reserves has got to stop. guardsmen have to be sent home. a number of states are going to run out of money for children's health insurance and all of this, all of this is completely unnecessary. unnecessary. but senate democrats believe none of it is too high a price to pay for appeasing their political base. there is no reason for this shutdown. we have been and we continue to be willing to work together in good faith on immigration, but that deadline, that deadline is weeks away. there is no good reason for

senate democrats to keep willfully forcing a shutdown on this country. now, i want to take a moment and i want to address the men and women who work here in the capitol and who work around the country and this government, whether you're in the military or in the reserves or you're in law enforcement, or medical researchers, or people working at our national parks, whichever you do, wherever you are, whatever it is you're doing for the taxpayers. thank you for your service. thank you for your sacrifices that you and your families make. we could not be more grateful. you should not have to go through this uncertainty. you deserve so much better than this needless shutdown and we hope that it will end very soon. my colleagues, senate democrats shut down this government and now senate democrats need to open this government back up. stop holding our troops and

children's health insurance hostage. end this reckless shutdown that is inflicting needless uncertainty on our country. let common sense and cooler heads prevail. come to your senses, do the right thing, open this government back up. i yield. >> gentleman from wisconsin yield's back. gentleman from kentucky is recognized. pursue to-- >> pursue. >> that's speaker ryan with harsh, harsh words for democrats saying, quote, there is no reason for the shutdown and also saying senate democrats are willfully pushing the shutdown on our country. i'm going to turn it over to leland. leland: thank you. the messaging coming off from speaker ryan, some of the very same messaging we're hearing here at the white house. and raj, we were on last weekend and you all, but predicted this saying if democrats want to tie funding to daca, then there's going to be a shutdown because

the white house isn't budging. 12 hours in, the same position? >> exactly the same position we've held for some time. we're not going to negotiate the status of hundreds of thousands of people here unlawfully while basic services and military that protects hundreds of millions of people here lawfully is held hostage. so, our position is pretty clear, the democrats need to change their course and reopen the government. leland: all right, the president ran on a platform of being able to make unique deals, being able to bring republicans and democrats together in a way that president obama didn't. where and when are we going to see that vis-a-vis the shutdown? >> well, i think we're going to see democrats beginning to frankly change their position and beginning to compromise an and work with us. right now the president is working the phones and he's talking to members of congress, but also, he's dealing with members in our federal agencies, and folks in the military to ensure that-- >> you say he's talking to

members of congress, both sides, calls to nancy and chuck as well? >> i am a note going to give you readouts. he's working the phones to make sure that we can refund the military and health care for 9 million chin that -- children that was cut off. >> and that's tied to this bill, for six years. it seems like a mixed message out of the white house, saying at the same time funding to are our military is held hostage, things are so terrible and this is such a damaging situation, yet at the same time we look at secretary ryan zinc's twitter feed, around the capitol, the national parks are still open and comments of, hey, we're not going to weaponize this shutdown, it's not going to be that bad, we'll do what we can for it to be as minimal am i affected to the general population, which is it? >> we're doing all we can to sin mies the impact of the shutdown. let's not kid ourselves, it has

an impact. yesterday, secretary of defense james mattis talked about how intelligence operations have to be stopped. training operations have to be stopped. our border patrol agents, our actual troops and service members, first responders, they have to work and not receive pay and that can only last so long. so the impact is very real. it does hurt and undermine our national security. we're working as hard as we can to minimize that impact. leland: noteworthy, the military and border patrol doesn't get paid, but congress gets paid. does that apply to the executive branch? >> i hope to get paid pretty soon, but i think that everybody in the federal government has an impact in one way or another. our jobs are harder because so many people that work with us and for us aren't here to support us. the impact of a federal government shutdown is significant and we can't do it over legislation that has nothing to do with budget issues. leland: it's significant, also, this is occurring on the president's one-year anniversary

in office. you were supposed to be in mar-a-lago for a big celebration with the president and now you're stuck here. live pictures of the white house, just beyond the white house, we have the washington monument and the woman's march, and we saw that last year after the president as inauguration. and marches are going on around the country with similar messages. is the white house taking anything from that? do you have a message for these folks? >> well, we're actually very proud. record this president has had in the first year of office for women specifically. unemployment for women is near historic lows. we have women opening up businesses at levels never seen before. we have half a billion dollars in sba loans for women entrepreneurs, so this president is doing a lot. we think that the women at this march if they're really concerned about women and children, be concerned about the 9 million children most vulnerable and losing health insurance. leland: you just talked about what this president has done for

women, for unemployment, forp women's unemployment, for other women's issues. yet at the same time we're hearing from democrats that their answer in 2018 is more women. they want more women candidates and they think that the women vote is a swing vote. where is the disconnect as we look at live pictures from dallas with folks as well? >> look, we think that the record the president has for women, i touched on a few of the items. the impact of this tax cut bill, which created a new child tax credit or expanded the tax credit by $1500. we have a strong case to make, not to women, but all americans about an improving economy, a safe and secure country and we really think that democrats who are really pushing for the shutdown for other legislation, don't want to talk about these accomplishments or the tremendous opportunity. leland: you've got a long weekend ahead of you and not the one in mar-a-lago you expected.

>> thank you. leland: send it back. gillian: the first rule of a shutdown is congress always gets paid. i wanted to put that out there for you. now shall the discussion around the government shutdown today revolves around daca, lawmakers still at this very hour in the midst of the shutdown trying to hash out a deal that would give daca immigrants a more permanent pathway to citizenship. joining me is the director of immigration and cross-border policy, at the bipartisan policy center here in washington. theresa, well, you know what? i think we are going to actually toss this over to the senate majority leader. >> without the knowledge that their children's health care is safe. all because the democratic lead leader fill filibustered and chose a shutdown.

yesterday, the senator senator from new york tried to insist that the shutdown was anybody's fault, but his own. anybody else, but me, he said. he blames president trump because the president wouldn't resolve months of ongoing negotiations over massive issues in one brief meeting and give the senator everything he wanted. he blamed republicans of congress as though everybody didn't know that the senate rules allow the minority party, if they choose, to obstruct the american people's business and filibuster for their own political purposes. it's possible. but in this instance, foolishly done. these rhetorical gymnastics are simply not persuasive. the american people see right through all this bluster. see right through all of this bluster.

like the president, like the house and like the bipartisan majority of senators, the american people want long-term solution on immigration policy, on government spending, and on all the major issues we've been discussing literally for months. and will continue to discuss. but like the president, like the house and like a bipartisan majority of senators, the american people cannot begin to understand why the senate democratic leader thinks the entire government should be shut down until he gets his way on illegal immigration. the american people cannot comprehe comprehend why the senior senator of new york is advising his party to keep the government shuttered for military families, vulnerable american children until he gets exactly what he wants on the issue of illegal

immigration. the situation which not even-- that's not even become urgent until march. all of these other matters are indeed urgent. they need to be dealt with right now. this particular issue does not become urgent until march. i hope senate democrats are starting to realize all this. i hope they're starting to realize their constituents, their president, the house, the majority of the senate are on one side of this. on the other side, all alone, the democratic leader, who invented this unfortunate hostage situation and led his party into this untenable position. the solution is to end the foolishness.

it's hurting millions of americans who have done absolutely nothing to deserve this. so, i would invite all of my colleagues across the aisle to join together and do what is obviously responsible and right for the people we represent. it's pretty clear here. let's reopen the government, let's resume the bipartisan discussion on funding our troops, daca, on government spending, and on all the other priorities that all of us can work together to resolve. >> that was the senate majority leader. he says the american people see right through this bluster and they want long-term solutions and he could not be more correct on that point. leland. leland: thank you, gillian.

and here at the white house we're told that president trump is working the phones, trying to find some kind of deal, although they are coy about who he is talking to, whether it's people on both sides of the aisle or just republicans, and with that, we bring in republican senator cory gardner from the great state of colorado. good to see you, sir. >> good afternoon, leland. >> you look awfully good without so many sleep. >> i'm one of the younger ones in the senate. leland: you are one of the younger ones. we'll get to politics in a minute. first this issue, for a moment let's assume that the democrat's tie to daca is a sincerely held belief rather than trying to score political points. i know that's up for debate, but-- how is this different than 2013? >> in 2013 we voted yes for a funding package. we voted yes in the house of representatives to fund the government. we were talking about a very

broad area of policies and we voted yes. the democrat demands at that time were for a clean cr. a clean cr. in fact, senator chuck schumer said we need a clean cr. that's what he this wanted, you shouldn't be holding the government hostage to politics, it will create governmental chaos and here we are with senator schumer holding the government hostage to his politics, immigration politics, and creating government chaos. leland: the entire republican party is saying that this is tying false immigration reform deadline to government funding, it's wrong, we'll fix daca later. so, everyone's consistent in that talking point. why don't you think democrats, your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, are owning that? >> well, i think there's a lot of worry on the other side of the aisle what they've gotten themselves into. here is the deal. gillian: i have been one of a bipartisan working group trying to find a solution. i very much want to find a solution for dreamers, i'm

committed to that and important to the people of colorado, but i don't think you achieve your goal, you achieve your objective by picking up your ball and going home. this is the politically equivalent of going to your own corner and sticking your tongue out at each other. this is not what the people of this country expect and want to see happening. leland: the white house also saying they're not going to negotiate about dreamers or immigration that the government funded-- we heard from paul ryan, speaker of the house and senate majority leader echoing some of the same sentiments. it brings up a point, how does this play in the midterms, maintaining control of the senate is your responsibility. as we look live across the country there's massive women's marches, dedicated to bringing out candidates to try and prevent the republicans from keeping the majority. >> well, if you're at an air force base in missouri or north dakota, whether you're a bomber pilot out of north dakota or working the nuclear missile

triad in north dakota, air force in missouri or beyond, you're looking at this thinking what are the people doing? it's not just the men and women in the field impacted. the men and women in uniform around the world impacted by this. it's their families. think about the families in the military, these people aren't making bucket loads of money. they're sacrificing each and every day and now worry about a paycheck and husband or wife's well-being. it's sad what the democrats are willing to do this this country. 6,000 civilians in colorado could be furloughed who support our critical defense mission and this is unacceptable. neil: not surprising you brought up north dakota and missouri. i was waiting for west virginia. cory, good to have you as always, senator. >> thanks, leland. leland: gillian. gillian: and women's marches, demonstrations the same time

last year and activists are in place in washington d.c., chicago, new york, l.a., dozens of other cities. caroline shively is here with the latest. >> hi there, gillian. this is one of about 250 events all across the country, one year after the event that brought more and a million people to the streets, one year ago. my photographer jason can show you around the crowd. definitely smaller than last year, but just as enthusiastic. you can see the signs of people of course, the pink hats that became so famous last year. a couple of unexpected speakers today. senators caine and blumenthal, talking about the importance of getting more women to run for office. we spoke to women on the ground and asked them why are you here? >> i'm here because i have to be. things have gotten way worse than i ever thought that they would and i'm afraid that our

government's being eroded and all the rights that i think a lot of us have taken for granted over the years need to be protected. >> it's been quite a year and it's all about supporting women, since politics aside, it's all about women and women's rights. >> and the speakers should go here for about another hour. after that, people here are going to put their walking shoes on and head that way and take their message to the white house. back to you. gillian: thanks for that, caroli caroline. the discussion around the government shutdown in washington largely revolves around daca. lawmakers are still at this hour in the midst of the shutdown trying to hash out a deal that would give the citizen's a pathway to citizenship. joining me once again, kind enough to stick with us, director of immigration cross-border policy for the policy center. thanks so much. >> you're welcome. gillian: as i understand it, bpc

was not initially in favor of the president's decision to rescind daca, is that right? >> yeah, we supported the daca program. i'll put it this way, we support the daca kids, we believe they should have a pathway to legal status in the united states. we are a bipartisan group and we had some members of our bipartisan group didn't support the fact that president obama did it by executive action and would have preferred congress to do that and others favored that. and at the time the president set aside daca, it belongs in congress and should have been in congress. gillian: rather than executive. >> now it's on congress to solve it. gillian: now we're in the midst of the shutdown largely over this issue. do you get the feeling or do you believe that the issue is important enough that it sort of deserves a stand alone platform, that maybe it shouldn't be incorporated into discussions around the budget and spending for next year, when it--

these sort of political line items that it's getting compared with? you know, isn't there a sense that no matter where you are in the political spectrum, we can agree that this deserves serious and thoughtful debate by congressional leaders? >> i think it does deserve thoughtful and serious debate by congressional leaders. it's not the first time that a package has been used to carry nonappropriation things. this has been used by republicans and democrats and majorities that are split. the political reality is when you have any piece of legislation that is must-pass, must be done, a debt ceiling increase, a bugetary passage, things that are difficult to be voted on otherwise tend to gravitate toward those. gillian: and unfortunately, i think some of the texture and the substance of the issue at hand will get lost in these political hostage taking situations as senator mcconnell referred. >> i think what you're seeing though, there is a desire on

both sides of the aisle so solve the problem for dreamers. majorities on both sides, republicans and democrats support a pathway for the dreamers. the question is, what does that package deal look like? we've seen deals since the president ended daca in september, we've seen several pro tension deals come together and fall apart. the infamous meeting with chuck and nancy they thought they had agreed daca for border and a few days later, maybe that wasn't the deal that was made. we had a bipartisan deal that a group of senators negotiateded including senator gardner negotiated a week ago and said to the president, nope, nope, that's not what we want. members of congress from both sides of the aisle to ask the president clearly, tell us what you need in a deal and we'll be happy to do that. apparently senator schumer asked the same thing of the president yesterday. we keep having this deal or no deal on this. if there was a deal i think it wouldn't be a problem to attach it to this or anything else.

the goal posts are shifting and the democrats are tired of the movement and everybody-- >> well, theresa, thanks very much for joining you gos, we've got to leave it there and the debate will rage on this weekends. >> it will. gillian: thanks so much. >> . gillian: i donald john trump do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of president of the united states. >> the office of president of the united states. leland: that was president trump one year ago today, giving the oath of office, 27 minutes ago he did it right at the top of noon. the president promised economic growth and a balanced budget, but those promises or perhaps whether or not they have been kept have been overshadowed by the current government shutdown.

joe walsh. you've been on both sides, really, of the president throughout this entire year and even during his candidacy. this is what the president treated out a couple hours ago, this is the one year anniversary of my presidency and democrats wanted to give me a nice present and he continued from a couple of hours earlier, dems want a shutdown in order to help diminish the great success of tax cuts and what they are doing for our booming economy. do you agree? >> yeah, you know, i've got to tell you, leland. this is really outrageous, what we're watching today. i mean, think about it, in your coverage has been spot on. the democrats are shutting down our government to stand up for people in this country illegally. they're shutting down our military, they're shutting down our essential services to defend people in this country illegally. that's not a tenable position and the president is right--

>> joe, it may not be a tenable position among republicans, republicans love that taking point and even independents in their polls say it's not worth shutting down the government over daca, but we have live pictures right now of the woman's march, this is looking from the lincoln memorial back towards the washington monument across the reflecting pool there, thousands of people coming out and many of whom with signs talking about immigrants. this is something that is much more about principle than it is political gain for so many on the other side of the aisle. >> it is, leland, for the democrat base. unfortunately, this first year of trump's president he's lot a lot of people in the middle. 70, 80% of the american people don't want to shut the government down for people in this country illegally. so this stance that trump is taking, leland, i think is going to help him with people in the middle. those women marching out on the mall right now, they can't stand trump. they're never going to vote for

trump anyway. this will help trump get people in the middle again. leland: it does bring up an important point as we hear from so many of these folks about the issue of immigration. we're going to take one moment here, somebody's talking about immigration as well. chuck schumer on the floor of the senator. >> in rejecting the house continuing resolution, which hurts our military, does nothing for urgent domestic priorities bieb opioids, pensions, nothing on disaster relief and nothing on the immigration issues we have a real urgency to solve. it just kicked the can down the road one more shameful time. i believe it was the fourth time that we've done that. my republican friends speak often of the damage done to our military by lurching from continuing resolution to continuing resolution. we democrats agree, that's why we offered secretary at that time tis his full budget request.

something i offered yesterday in the white house to president trump as well. my republican friends know we have to stop the cr's and do a budget and fully fund our military. we can't forget about urgent domestic priorities in the budget, but military has to be given the certainty it needs. this is one of the main reasons the bipartisan coalition last night rejected the house cr. because of the damage that secretary mattis has said it has done to the military. another reason we rejected it was because it was constructed without an ounce of democratic input and i suspect very little input from many republicans in the senate. in our democracy, you have to compromise if you wish to govern. that's how our founding fathers designed our government to operate. and yet, time and time again the republican leader believes he can drop legislation on the

floor, say take it or leave it, and then gear up the finance of partisan war if we decide to leave it. the leader crafted a partisan approach without consulting us and tries to blame us for not going along. that kind of behavior would not pass in any part of civil society. it would be called bullying. we are happy and eager to compromise, but we will not be bullied. the most important point is this, the republicans control the white house, the senate, the house. that's why america and the world are calling this shutdown the trump shutdown. it's the president and republicans' responsibility to govern. it's their responsibility to keep the doors open and lights on around here, but the

republican leadership can't get a tumultuous president on board with anything and they don't offer us any compromises on their own. the breakdown of compromise is poisoning this congress, and it all springs from president trump. he's turned blowing up partisan bipartisan-- sorry, he's turned up blowing up bipartisan agreements into an art form. the president can't take yes for an answer. twice in this long debate president trump walked away from partisan deals, to solve all of the issues before us. a week ago last tuesday, president trump appealed to congress on national television to come up with a deal and he said he'd sign it, he'd sign whatever congress sent him. he said he'd take the heat for it. but when a bipartisan group of senators, led by senators graham and senator durbin, brought him that compromise, he blew it up.

in a volcanic meeting at the white house. the same script played out with myself and the president yesterday. the president called me in the morning and asked that i come to the white house and of course, i accepted. we had an extensive and serious negotiation about every single outstanding issue. we came close to a tentative agreement on the budget after i offered the pentagon request on the thorniest issue of immigration the president said many times he would take a deal that included daca in exchange for the wall. i put that deal on the table in the oval office. in a sincere effort on compromise. and it was a generous offer and i believe president trump was

inclined to accept it and was willing to do a very short-term cr. he suggested tuesday night in order to get the deal finalized. hours later, i got a phone call telling me this is not good enough. first from the president saying, i hear it's three weeks, i said no one told me about that, that's not what we discussed. and then a few hours later, well, we want what you've offered and four or five more things, which they knew were unpalatable to democrats, but appeased the hard right anti-immigration wing of the republican party. the bottom line is simple, president trump just can't take yes for an answer. he's rejected not one, but two viable bipartisan deals, including one in which i put his most prominent campaign pledge on the table. what's even more frustrating than president trump's intransigence is the way that he

seems amenable to these compromises before completely switching positions and backing off. negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jello. that's why this compromise will be called a trump shutdown. the president's behavior is inn innimic innimicarwle. it's hard to negotiate with a moving target. leader mcconnell has found that out. speak are ryan has found that out. president trump is so mercurial, it's been impossible to get him to agree to anything. again, to sum it up, the president can't make a deal and congressional republicans won't. as a result, a paralysis has

descended on capitol hill. as trump said in 2011, if there's a shutdown, i think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the united states. he's the one that has to get people together. that's president trump's quote then, 2011. getting people together, that's just about the opposite of what he's done in these negotiations. so, on the one year anniversary of president trump's inauguration today, his government has closed its door to the american people and he hardly seems to care. early on, he said, our country could, quote, use a good shutdown. today, he tweeted this is the one year anniversary of my presidency, and the democrats wanted to give me a nice present. he calls the shutdown an anniversary present, a present. it shows just how out of touch

and how callus he can be. a government shutdown is no present for the country, for his party, and for him. and it's entirely the president's doing. the only way out of this is for the president to take yes for an answer, to accept the bipartisan compromise we bring him. so we, on our side, will keep trying. last night, i suggested before leaders and president trump meet immediately to sort this out, i hope we can still do this otherwise this trump shutdown could go on longer than anyone wants it to. gillian: i yield the floor. >> senator from tennessee. >> mr. president, i-- the democratic-- >> schumer there, the house minority leader. the senator minority leader on the floor of the senate.

talking pretty extensively about the shutdown. talked about the effects on the military and privaivoted to bla the president. bringing in joe walsh, former congressman from illinois. and you were listening to chuck schumer, it sounded like the minority leader playing defense. >> leland, chuck schumer sounded like he was at a funeral. he sounded so depressed. look, and i think the reason is, they know their position is untenable. the vast majority of my former colleagues up there, republican and democrat, they would support a clean funding bill for a few days or a month or two, that's a crazy way to run the government, but that's what most republicans and democrats want to do and then deal with daca and the wall and all of that other stuff in a month or two. leland: well, that may be a possibility and that's certainly what the white house is saying, they're not going to negotiate daca with a shutdown to their

head. speaking of what chuck schumer thinks is important. his twitter page and the background image and normally would have a picture is the words, i stand with dreamers. there's what he says on the senate floor and what his twitter feed says something you monitor and comment on often, joe. >> thank you, leland. leland: something tells me there's more to talk about and gillian has the other side of this. gillian: that's right, we've got more on how the democratsic party views this impasse. i want to bring in california congressman john garamendi. the white house is going full throttle on the line that senate dems are holding americans hostage in the interest of illegal immigrants. tell me why they're wrong. >> just the vote last night. five senators voted against the continuing resolution. the majority of the-- they could not line up every

republican senator last night. so, this is more than just partisan. this is a whole lot of senators and members of congress that are very, very concerned about using a continuing resolution as a mechanism to fund government. it is a most serious problem to do so. you've heard from mattis. you've heard from secretary of navy. we hear it all the of the time in the armed services committee, it just is a terrible way and it's not just the military, and a shutdown is the worst of all. it didn't have to happen. schumer was laid out, i believe, accurately a meeting that he had with the president yesterday morning, thought he had a deal, which was blown up by the president and then by chief of staff kelly after schumer had left the white house. gillian: all right, congressman, if you put aside the shutdown just for a moment on this. >> okay. gillian: who is at fault here. it is true that statutorily, you've got until march to come

up with a resolution for the dreamers. so why the emphasis this has got to get solved now today? i think that is at the heart of the republican claim that you guys are holding the federal government hostage. >> first of all, finger pointing is not going to solve the problem and there's an awful lot of that going around and i hesitate to do more than what i've done which is finger pointing. but the reality is the daca issue is important, as is the funding for health care centers, i know that there is in this continuing resolution funding for children's health insurance. but 40% of those children get their funding from various health clinics that are not funded and so the health clinics are being shut down so it's far, far more than just daca. daca is an important issue and why is daca connected here? because it has continually been pushed down the road and not dealt with by the republican congress and the senate, and the white house for that matter.

and so, it's one of those issues that has to be dealt with, along with all of the others. we need to fund the government for the remainder of this year, for ten-- or actually nine full months going forward. gillian: sir, i would just say. sorry to interrupt you. i would just say to you from the perspective of ordinary americans, the american people at large today, that is the specialty of you and your colleagues, not just democrats, republicans, too, congress's specialty is kicking the can down the road and we don't expect anything else. >> we should. gillian: this point going forward, the senate minority leader i think he just used that phrase a couple of minutes ago. what are you doing about it? you are a member of this governing body. what are you doing to help get a breakthrough on this. >> personally what i'm doing is reaching across to friends in the republican caucus and saying, let's put a deal together. let's write a good daca piece of legislation, let's fund the government. there is a question of how much

money we have. keep in mind that $150 billion was ripped out of the treasury this year by the tax legislation. gillian: congressman i'm sorry to interrupt you, we're go to get cut out because we're going to break. thank you for continuing to hash this out. >> thank you.

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shockingly, but coincidentally, every member of the house and the senate is still in town this weekend. many hoped to have been back in their districts, but instead waiting for a be po-- possible vote to reopen the government. as always, thank you. quickly, your reaction as the shutdown continues? i'm guessing you pretty much agree with the republican theory we're not going to negotiate daca as long as the government is shut down. >> this is what nancy pelosi called in 2013, arson, and with good faith negotiations-- >> you just brought in 2013. if it was all right for the republicans this shut down the government in 2013 over what they viewed as a core principle, not funding obamacare, why isn't it okay for democrats to do it

for something they view as a core principle. >> i wasn't here in 2013. i will tell you one of the reasons i wanted to run for congress is because of what i was observing in washington, in 2013, republicans and democrats, need for our government to be moving in the right direction and we've seen nothing, but progress since then, and that has resulted in all of the republicans here in washington, the republican party, and president trump wanting to see the government open, and you're seeing congressional democrats voting to close it down. leland: all right. congressman, unfortunately we'll have to leave it there. just like congressman garamendi from the other side of the aisle, we're up against a hard break. we want to talk about the fisa memo that you've been tweeting with. #releasethememo. our continuing coverage from the white house and capitol hill. we'll hear again from the white house about what the president is doing this morning and get him to respond to some of chuck

schumer's comments from the senate floor just a couple of minutes ago. we'll be right back. ♪

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>> >> marches erupting across the country, large crowds in cities

across the nation. leah gabriel is live on the ground with the latest. leah. >> hi, gillian, we're on the southwest side of central park where the pre-march rally is taking place right now. i'm going to step away so you can see the throngs of people who are here wearing a sea of pink hats, those familiar -- those familiar pink hats. now, organizers of this march are expecting this to be one of the largest. last year, they had about a million people and this year they're expecting even more. the pre-march rally kicked off around 11:30 with speakers including the founder of the #metoo movement. they're carrying signs pre motoring women's issues, equal pay, stopping sex trafficking and ending sexual harassment. but there's also a lot of anti-president trump messages on the signs as well. the organizer of the event is a

conservative and this should really be about women. take a listen. >> we're not anti-men. we're not anti-trump. we're pro women and we're pro supporters of women. >> now, there are a large number of men here as well. i spoke with one who came with his young daughter and here is what he had to say. >> we're all equal. there's no reason why her rights are less important than my rights because i'm a man and she should get compared to an equal man when she's older. everyone should be equal. no question, no arguments. it shouldn't be a debate. >> well, what you can see here is there's a lot of energy. people here with voices and they have something to say. the bottom line is motivating political action, getting women out to vote and getting more women into public office. gillian. gillian: thank you, we'll have

much more coming up in the next hour of america's news headquarters. leland. leland: and continue all around, not only washington, but they continue around the country. live pictures now as you can see we're awaiting a democratic press conference. how do we know it's a democratic press conference, because there is is a large easel with a ha , #trumpshutdown and the senate minority leader saying this is president trump's fault, this is president trump's fault. and republicans are using the #schumershutdown and we'll watch the door to see when the minority leader is going to come out. the white house pushing back very hard on that saying they're not going to negotiate about anything having to do with immigration. they're not going to make some grand deal until democrats reopen the government and are

willing to vote for some type of continuing resolution. and the white house putting out a number of their surrogates. we've heard from the white house press secretary, among others, throughout the day. sarah huckabee sanders as well is going to talk to the press about it. here is senator chuck schumer. we heard him on the floor and now at the press conference. >> so after midnight last night, after a lot of effort from the democratic side to negotiate a final deal for the american people, republicans in congress plunged head first into the trump shutdown. how did we get here? why is it that republicans and president trump are unwilling to do the jobs they were elected to do and reach an agreement to fund the military, critical programs for the middle class,

address daca, fund children's health and take care of disaster aid? over the last several months, democrats have bent over backward to negotiate with the white house. unfortunately, the president and republican leaders in congress are like abbott and costello. the congressional leaders tell me to negotiate with president trump. president trump tells me to figure it out with republican leaders. let me talk a little bit about what transpired in negotiations. first a little history. last year, when president trump ended the daca program we immediately began working on a solution that both sides could agree to. leader pelosi and i went to dinner with the president. we came away with an agreement to pursue a deal pursuing the daca act with border security.

the president agreed. but that night and the next morning, the hard right came after him. breitbart called him amnesty trump. laura ingraham insisted that he be impeached. by the weekend, he had backed off. then congress went to work in a bipartisan worked hard to deliver a bipartisan deal, two weeks ago, the president had a meeting on national television for the world to see. he said he wanted four things, protect the dreamers, secure the border, end what he calls chain migration and end diversity visa lottery. and then he said he would sign what congress would come up with. well, the bipartisan gang of six delivered, when the president heard about the contours of the deal with senator durbin, he was thrilled, he invited senators

durbin and graham to the white house, but the hard right attacked again. a meeting that could have ended in bipartisan handshake instead deinvolved into the one of the most infamous meetings of his presidency. but still we want back to work, excuse me, i have a cold. but still we want back to work to strike a deal with the president, yesterday i talked to the president in the morning. we were not far a part on the issues. a deal to fund military and critical programs for the middle class can be struck, we agreed to the contours of that deal, an immigration deal was within reach. we could address churns health insurance, other issues, disaster aid. we went to the meeting and had a long and productive discussion, i told the president we democrats were willing to fund

the military at the highest levels in history, far above even his budget request. i reluctantly put his wall ask for the southern border on the table. it was his request. we left the meeting having agreed to try for a short-term cr that would keep everyone at the negotiating table for a few more days. the president suggested, let's do it by tuesday night, we said, great. several hours later he called back, he said, so i hear we have a three-week deal, i said, no, mr. president, no one has talked to me about a three-week deal. i heard that's the deal. i said, no one has talked to me. i called leader pelosi, no one had talk today her. then a few hours later they called back again. well, we are going to need this, this, this in addition, things,

it was general kelly that they knew were far, far right and off the table. now, the lunch that seemed so promising was quickly overtaken by hard-right forces in the administration. even though we bent over backwards to meet the president's demands, negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with jello. it's next to impossible. as soon as you take one step forward, the hard right forces the president three steps back. now, i want to say, i don't have the personal animus that a lot of my colleagues have towards the president. we are both blunt and direct. i agree with him on just about every issue but at least we can talk to one another but it's next to impossible to strike a

deal with the president because he can't stick to the terms. i have found this out, leader mcconnell has found this out, speaker ryan has found this out. here we are on the first anniversary of the president's inauguration, mired in the trump shutdown. it doesn't have to be this way. we can get big things done. we can fund the military at the highest level ever. we can commit unprecedented resources to the fight against opioids, to our veterans, to pension plans that are drying up. we can protect our southern border and protect young americans who were brought here as children. we can pass children's health insurance and i've never seen something so cynical as republicans pitting groups of children against each other. they hold up chip to hold other children these time the daca

kids hostage. that's a disgrace. that's not what america wants. we can also pass disaster aid which texas, california, florida and puerto rico want. we can do big things but the president needs to step up and lead. the republicans control the presidency, the senate, the house. they know whose responsible. the american people know that the republicans control the presidency, the senate and the house and they know whose responsible. america knows this is the trump shutdown. only the president can end it. we democrats are at the table, we are ready to negotiate. the president needs to pull up a chair to end this shutdown. ready for your questions?

king. >> can you define what you mean by putting the wall, the big beautiful wall? >> okay, this is was not -- i'm not going to get into specific numbers, but i will tell you it was the president who suggested the number and i said let's put it on the table. >> how big is the number? >> senator -- [inaudible] >> reason twitter he's leading 10 to 1. [laughter] >> can you put aside the -- >> i don't care. yeah. >> talk to him again and do you feel after what you said can you believe -- you can believe what he would say? >> well, look, this is the third or fourth time on this issue, he's made some kind of commitment and backed off because he's afraid of the right wing, whether steven miller does it or general kelly doesn't steer him in the right direction and just lets it happen, i don't know, but it's getting very,

very difficult. you know, my hope has always been that senator mcconnell and leader ryan would see knowing what they know about the president, that they would step up to the plate themselves but they are afraid to too, i think, or reluctant. i wouldn't characterize as afraid, but reluctant. leader mcconnell said publicly, that he doesn't know what the president thinks and he told me repeatedly, i should negotiate with trump. [inaudible] >> we did not reach agreement, we came close to parameters of an agreement. [inaudible] >> no, i heard -- the first call came from the president about the three weeks, which was news to me. >> running the white house, maybe? >> well, you have to ask people that know the white house better than me. all i know that it's impossible to negotiate when the position keeps changing, changing and changing.

yes. >> a follow-up on that question, do you get the sense that president trump is changing his mind regularly or do you get the sense that he is agreeing to things and getting strong -- >> second. when you sit with the president, this is the second or third time i've tone this on an agreement, you can see he really wants to do. but then a few hours later because of the right-wing pressure, he backs off. and what i'd like to know who in the white house is a sort of moderating force who says, this is a good thing for you and the country and your party, go for it, don't let those people back you up. i don't see anyone in the white house doing that. >> next. [inaudible] >> yes. >> do you run that risk, would you run the risk of -- [inaudible] >> well, first of all, dreamers, unlike other issues, has huge

bipartisan support, it's not something, you know, it's not like 2013 ted cruz where he had his own view, this is very popular. second, it's the first time that we had one party control all three parts of the government and the american people know that it's their responsibility to reach out and compromise, to get things done, there's a lot of feeling in the country that the white house is incapable of really leading the country and when something like this happens, it makes -- it exacerbates that view. >> leader, if negotiating with the president is like negotiating with jello as you said, how are you going to get it done and are you willing to go back to the white house this weekend? >> look, i suggested last night on the floor and this morning on the floor that the president called the four of us back today and try to get something done. it's still very, very hard given the past history and what i've said and what have to be willing

to try. thank you, last one. cnn back there. yelling isn't going to get you called on. >> do you think democrats have the stomach for a shutdown that last a week, two weeks, two months? >> i think -- >> do you think that republicans if you hold that long enough will say, okay, we will take the gang of six deal and pass -- >> look, there are various compromises being bandied about, far more serious today than they were yesterday by the republican side and i'm always listening to compromises on how to get this done but at this point, we feel very, very strongly about the issues, not just dreamers, but opioids, pensions, not funding the military on a cr basis, and we feel the american people are on our side. >> why not -- >> thank you, everybody. >> why not accept a three-year

deal? >> senate minority chuck schumer with a press conference of sorts on capitol hill, oddly similar talking points to that of a speech he delivered on the floor of the united states senate less than an hour ago, and, gillian, what struck me the most, now all of a sudden more things being tied to the deal by democrats. the white house is clear that they are not going to negotiate about reopening the government or funding the government and tie that to daca. first you reopen and then you deal with daca and now you have dhuk chuck schumer tieing potentially deal to not only daca, opioids, pension and a number of other things as well, gillian. gillian: leland, he reiterated a couple of things that i noticed to just now in remarks that he said an hour ago as you pointed out. he talks about paralysis has

descended on washington, d.c. doubled down on the president, he said that for the one-year anniversary, president trump has had his government closed its doors to the american people. so scathing words from the senate minority leader for the president. so he's certainly not backing down either on the political side or on the side of the spending bill. leland: or on the personal side, gillian, with the name-calling, the minority speaker spoke a lot about hearing deals being floated around capitol hill and speaking of capitol hill our own peter doocy is there. when things float around capitol hill, he hears them. >> they are not going to do what chuck schumer is talking about there and negotiate daca while the government is shut down. they are going wait until things are reopened and speaker ryan just delivered a blistering rebuke of his democratic colleagues who he says are doing

something that is extremely harmful to the military right now. >> training for reserves have to stop, guardsmen have been sent back home. a number of states are going to run out of money for children's health insurance and all of this, all of this is completely unnecessary. but senate democrats believe that none of it is too high a price to pay for appeasing their political base. >> mitch mcconnell last night started talking about a three-week long resolution to fund the government and the house democratic leader nancy pelosi said a little while ago that she would go for that as long as it comes with daca, but, again, we have no indication that republicans want that or would go along with that or would even introduce that. looks like they are stuck, leland. leland: certainly the white house saying daca is off the deal -- off the table at least

until there is some kind of funding of the government, peter doocy at capitol hill, peter as news warrants or you get anything, let us know. gillian. gillian: both republicans an democrats hope to go avoid a lengthy shutdown, the shutdown is less than 24 hour's old but some already feeling and seeing the impact. molly joins us live on who and what is affected and stands to be affected as the shut down goes on, molly. >> the trump administration says it has been preparing for the shutdown and trying to mitigate tim pact on americans as much as possible. still for hundreds of thousands of government employees, those who start the workweek on monday if the government is still shut down then, they will all will be no work and no pay for now except and there are notable exceptions, federal employees whose life is to protect job and property, again, no pay for now. tsa, air traffic controllers,

emergency management. food inspection, transportation, mail, health care, national security, all will be working. and for the military, defense secretary jainls mattis says some reserve training will be curtailed but otherwise he says, ships and submarines will remain at sea, aircraft will continue to fly and war fighters will continue to pursue terrorists through africa and south asia. as far as national parks, ryan zinke says not all parks will be open but we are all working hard to make as many areas as accessible to the public as possible. we have a picture of him at the world war ii memorial, not right there, but there's a picture of him at the world war ii memorial greeting visiting students. here is how the head of budget management described on his approach of handling the shutdown. >> the parks are open but the -- especially if the services are provided by third parties but things like the trash won't get picked up, fannie and freddie

will be open, the post office will be open, tsa will be open but all of the people will be working for nothing which is not fair. we are going to manage the shutdown differently, we are not going to weponized it. >> members of congress, however, will get paid during the shutdown according to the law, some members, though, including new york republican congressman chris collins has sent letter to chief administrative officer asking to have pay withheld until congress reaches an agreement, gillian. gillian: thanks, molly. a year ago president trump promised to ramp up the fight against isis and pledged that his foremost priority was going to be the war against isis when it came to fighting terrorism. joining us now with more on this nicholas, he most recently as director of counterterrorism center, step do you think from the post a month ago after 27

years of government service, we are super excited to have you today. >> thank you very much. gillian: you have unique perspective having worked for both administrations in a top five intelligence committee position, so i want to ask you first and foremost, year one, today is the anniversary of the trump administration, where are we in the fight against isis and in the fight against terrorism more broadly and how you sort of -- how would you characterize where we are? >> sure. the fight against isis has produced remarkable successes this year, there's no question that after a year's time we are -- have made a tremendous amount of progress at constraining the amount of territory the group holds, we have taken lots of fighters off the battlefield, we have made it far more difficult for isis to operate in iraq and syria. those are all very good thicks and isis on the decline. there's no way to argue about that. on the negative side, though, one of the things that makes isis so difficult and challenging, their ability to inspire people around the globe

including here inside the united states. they can do that even when they are getting whacked on the battlefield pretty hard. even when things are going badly for them in iraq and syria, and they are, they still have a way of inspiring individuals within narrative, with propaganda and turning individuals, often who are just lone actors into potential terrorists. gillian: do you think it's fair to say that while the first year has seen the so-called caliphate hit pretty hard, isis -- territory that isis previously held inside iraq and syria, the fight has migrated online and that they are increasing their presentation in cyberspace and pull? >> as fiscal fate has been taken away from them, obviously the organization needs to try to find other ways to have impact and one of those ways to have impact is mobilizing and motivating people around the world and they do that through remote connections, online and the online environment. an individual who has never met someone from isis but can latch

on to the idea, narrative, that person can become dangerous too when they have been pushed and motivated by isis propaganda. they may not have the tools of a terrorist organization, they may not be well trained but they can certainly reck havoc. gillian: what about -- our viewers would be interested to hear perspective of how things have changed, whether they have changed, strategic priorities from tend of the obama administration moving into the trump administration? >> sure, it's a great question. i served under president bush, i served under president obama and then again under president trump, i think in the main, there's been continuity, the broad outlines of the campaign to take back the physical

caliphate. certainly as the new administration came on, they brought their own particular priorities to bear on that campaign, they sought to accelerate the campaign with more resources in some cases, in some cases greater tolerance for risk and so i would argue that there has been some acceleration of the campaign over the last year. gillian: i think i'm not alone amongst our viewers when you hear talking about the continuity between president obama and trump, it's not something that we really hear a lot when it comes to national defense. we have to leave it there, we hope to have you back soon. thanks so much. >> thanks, gillian. i appreciate it. >> coming up fair and balance to debate who will be blamed and what can be done now to get the government up and running again. stick with us.

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fund the government and the government might be shut down but certainly they are working here at the white house, among those working is senior adviser for strategic communications mercedes schlapp, nice to see you as always. the white house position has been pretty good on this. we heard about a week ago that you're not going to negotiate and tie daca to this funding of the government. now we heard from chuck schumer a couple minutes ago talking about he wants a much bigger deal, not only daca, pensions,

opioids, i didn't hear him mention the kitchen sink but it was a long list. >> schumer, the architecture of shutdown is making up excuses, it's clear that the republicans in good faith and those democrats who have supported the short-term spending bill has what the democrats need, we are talking about the reauthorization of the chip program and other components that are critical and it's something that the democrats should be supporting, i mean, that's the deal that could work, that's the deal that the american people want, president trump does not want the shutdown, the republicans are ready to move forward on this and yet it is schumer and the obstructionist losers who are not pushing forward and getting the business done for the american people. leland: i will wrote bret baier yesterday that some say that a spokesperson should sound like their boss, those words, i think, are echoing things that perhaps are coming from upstairs. we hear that the president is working the phones, is he

working the phones with just republicans or back-channel communications with democrats? >> well -- [inaudible] >> he's also been talking to cabinet members like secretary nielsen and the impact of funding, it is so unfortunate that the democrats would put vulnerable children, our troops in danger. leland: the question might be in terms of where this goes, how much of a leadership role the president is going to take on this. i'm going to read you a quote, you tell me who perhaps it is from. if there's a shutdown, i think it would be a tremendous negative mark on the president of the united states, he's the one who has to get people together. >> the president has done in

good faith -- leland: that was the president himself in 2011. >> here is the deal leland, the president brought schumer to the white house yesterday. they were -- they talked it through, the president listened to schumer, schumer has unrealistic expectations, we have a short-term bill that works, schumer clearly understands and many democrats understand that including daca in the short-term spending bill is incredibly problematic, the daca deal is a complicated issue, they need to keep working on it until they find a bipartisan bicamera solution and that is what we are expecting from democrats. leland: so often in washington there are public positions which are much, much harsher and further apart than private positions, is the way you describe things, this could go on for months, this is setting up that there's no possible deal without the democrats totally caving, is that what you're saying or wiggle room with mark

short on the hill? >> leland, congress 101 here, we need 60 votes to pass the budget. that's what we need in the senate. house has done its job, it's up to senators, it's now up to getting democratic senators to engage and support the president and support some of these fellow democrats who have supported this bill, it is time, it's the moment for the democrats to come on board, this is about our trooms, this is about our national security. leland: we heard that from chuck schumer as well with some of the language he had for the president, jillian, back to you. >> lots of strategic communications, coming back after the break we will take you live to come of the women's marchs erupting this hour in dozens of cities, a lot of news coming out of them and we will take you right there. >> a lot of work ahead.

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lyle leland: live pictures in chicago, illinois, you can see what is certainly thousands if not tens of thousands of people streaming in to downtown chicago for women's march there, and there are women's marchs across the country on this the first anniversary of president trump's inauguration, you might remember in washington, the day after the inauguration, there was a massive women's march, so you have the marchs all over the country including here in washington today that are the women's marchs, in dallas, texas the march has a very different message and looks from the aerial picture much smaller as well, that march in specific is calling for president trump to be impeached, casey steagal on the ground there, we see the aerial of small group of people gathered around with plaquers,

is that the sum total of this march? >> yes, leland, exactly right. we are not seeing the numbers here in dallas that we have seen in terms of protestors and counter-protestors showing up in other cities across the country and we do have dueling rallies of sorts here in big d, the one behind dallas city hall, folks calling for president trump's impeachment, a police officer i talked to out here estimates a little more than 100 people. >> so are in attendance and then you also have a group of folks behind our camera, counter-protestors wearing make america great again hats. so a crowd of about 20 or so of those counter-protestors, dallas one of multiple cities today, you know, holding the grassroots impeach trump solidarity marchs, portland, honolulu, palm beach

among the cities, the group's web page says the president has been, quote, in blatant violation of the constitution from the moment he was sworn in to office and that is why they are calling for his impeachment, now, about 5 miles from this location, let's show you live aerials of chopper shots coming from network news, affiliate partners, this event also underway, a women's march in an area known as uptown dallas, an organizer say that this year's event marks 45 years since the anniversary of the landmark roe versus wade decision and also celebrates major achievements of women in the last year. it is an annual event but takes on a little bit of a different meaning in light of one year in office since president trump was inago swratted and so both events, the organizers say that they are simply trying to get dallas, texas involved in the

national dialogue when it comes to what's going on politically in this country. leland. >> dallas always part of a national conversation one way or the other. casey stegall there, stacy, thank you as we keep an eye around marchs in the country, gillian has more. gillian: thanks, the government shutdown is in the spotlight today but also one year of president trump's administration joining me now to talk about the president's first full year is republican fundraiser extraordinary dan palmer n. response to president's tweet earlier today, senator schumer said just half an hour ago that on trump one's one year-anniversary his government has closed its door to the person people, what i want to know from you is, are the

american people closing the wallets to the president and the gop? >> that was a remarkable exhibition of a deep-held delusion on the part of senator schumer. i mean, every since this man's election -- trump's election a year ago democrats have been telling themselves that he wasn't their president. he was forcibly campaigning on border security. the democrats have you believe that the problem is daca. it's just a symptom of broader problem which is failed immigration policy. i don't think anyone will close their wallets in mar-a-lago. gillian: can't argue with you on that specially with 2018 coming up ahead. we argued whether or not each

individual election is a referendum on trump, undoubtedly 2018 will be every midterm election to a certain extent, larger extent referendum on the president. i had you or leland, my colleague had you on the program a couple of months right after republican's failure to repeal and replace obamacare. i understand that you told him that you were feeling, strings of gop appear are the -- apparatus were hurting, i want to know now what the state of play is? >> i think we have generally optimistic a republican donor base, the fact that they were able to get through the tax act was very consequential and important. i mean, you can see with all the various companies announcing bonuses and pay increases, we have apple now paying the united states treasury $38 billion for the privilege of bringing back 250 billion to invest in the united states, that the business climate has already seen some

significant improvements from last year, so i think the donor community is generally supportive of the president and this agenda and they are going to be there to support him. >> sorry, dan palmer, we have a break-in, we have remarks live from jerusalem. we have the vice president. >> 300 people were killed in an attack on a mosque. the united states stands shoulder to shoulder with egypt in their fight against terrorism in this country and we will continue to collaborate egypt in taking the fight to terrorists across the region. we have made extraordinary progress in the fight against isis over the last year, our military, our coalition forces, working closely with iraq have literally driven isis out of iraq. we have overtaken the so-called capital of their caliphate in

raqqah and we are continuing to lead -- lean into that fight and the deep discussions today with president el si-si to confront and to defeat islamic terrorism across this region and across the world where productive and meaningful. we also raised a number of other issues on the global stage. we spoke about the priority president trump has placed on isolating north korea, we spoke about president el si-si to discontinue any diplomatic connection to north korea and he received that well and we are hopeful to see -- to see egypt take action in the days ahead to join other nations that are

standing, standing with the united states and with nations across the world to isolate north korea. we also spoke -- we also spoke about the importance of religious freedom, a greet priority for the people of the united states of america and urge president el si-si in his commitment to promote religious diversity and respect for religious viewpoints here in egypt. we also spoke about the need for a reform, reform legislation regarding ngo's, the impact on americans employed by ngo's in the country and we had productive and constructive conversation about that and lastly, i raised specifically the situation for two americans who are currently being held imprisoned here in egypt, who

have been imprisoned here since 2013 and president el si-si assured me that he would give me serious attention, i told him that we would like to see the american citizens restored to their families and restored to our country even as they deal with necessary reforms in the ngo. lastly, we had a discussion about the commitment of the united states to the peace process between israelis and palestinian authority. we heard president el si-si. he said to me what he said publicly about a disagreement between friends over our decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel but i assured him that even as president trump made that decision, a decision that i will reaffirm in jordan and reaffirm in israel before the end of this trip that will also reaffirm what president trump also said,

that we are absolutely committed to preserving the status quo with regard to holy sites in jerusalem, that we -- we have come to know final resolution about boundaries or other issues that have been negotiated between the parties and if the parties agree, i reminded president el si-si, if parties agree we will support two-state solution. i told him i would be delivering the message jordan and delivering the message in israel as well. the united states of america is deeply commit today restarting the peace process in the middle east, president trump believes that by removing the long contentious issue about the recognition of jerusalem as the capital that -- that we will be able to return to those matters that can be negotiated between

the parties and i conveyed that message to president el-si-si. ultimately this was a discussion between friends and partners and allies, we ended the evening with a memorable dinner at the presidential palace and i leave here with gratitude to president el si-si for hospitality and with a great, great sense of the bond that -- that president trump and president el si-si have forged to the benefit, i believe to the prosperity of the people. >> counterterrorism obviously a big part of the brief here, do you anything that you can share about attacks in kabul with attacks? >> i have been briefed about the -- the attack that's taking place in kabul, we will be monitoring that and if we have -- if we have more to say on

that, we will say it at the next stop. gillian: well, the government maybe shut down here in the united states but that's vice president pence live from cairo working overtime this weekend speaking to the press corp on the tarmac in front of air force two touches on issues ranging from terrorism to middle east peace and two-state solution to the status of israel. very, very interesting remarks from the vice president focusing on international affairs during this time of crisis at home, a welcome added perspective to all of this we are discussing here today. leland. leland: noteworthy that the vice president often such an effective force in the white house on capitol hill, the one-year anniversary of the trump presidency and obviously the one-year anniversary of vice president pence being sworn in and there are marchs around the country. they are being called the women's marchs, this one in new york, you can see live pictures there as the march has filled

city streets in new york, our affiliate nyw with their chopper, marchs in washington, d.c. and in chicago as well marking the anniversary of the massive women's march here in the capital the day after the inauguration, this the very first day of the government shutdown, so really three separate stories all coming together and to break it all down, we have fair and balance political balance, democratic radio host, gentlemen, obviously tight on time, we will keep these things brief. garland, first to you, this is clearly a play to the democratic base tieing together daca with government funding, we heard chuck schumer talk to core issues, smart play for the base, does this work with the independents democrats are going to need later this year if they want to take back the house and the senate? >> well, absolutely. and the democrats have to go to

the base first because one thing they learned in 2016 if you want to win you've got to get the base there first. but secondly, let's keep in mind that at some point there will be an end to this negotiation and when that happens people won't be talking about all of the trending facebook hash tags, they will remember that under a republican leadership we had a disaster rouse government shutdown and it will be much broader than the simple terms we are putting in the immediate news cycle. >> we have to bring josh in on this, we are getting word that the senate democratic caucus is now meeting behind closed doors during negotiations, you've got the sense listening to chuck schumer both on senate floor and then we heard -- when you heard his press conference that he was playing defense here and not sure that's how the democrats originally calculated this. >> he should be playing defense because at tend of the day, he's

tried a really thug-style tactic to tie daca to a continuing resolution and those are not related. daca is a complicated issue, it's an immigration policy question and this is a continuing resolution regarding funding. i see that they are on the defense because at the end of the day, the democratic caucus just rejected a six-year funding for the child health insurance plan for kids and reporting duty without a paycheck, the democratic party, the democratic caucus in the senate literally chose illegal immigration and open borders over funding -- frankly funding insurance plans for nonmillion american children, it is not good for the political base and the democratic party. leland: josh, garland, we will leave it there. pick up where josh left off, that's exactly, gillian, what the white house is saying, they will not be held hostage and negotiate policy with the government shut down. gillian: that's right, leland, after the break, we will have

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leland: live pictures from los angeles, 11:00 a.m. pacific as the women's march there begins to take shape. here at the white house we are already starting to hear the sounds of the women's march in washington that has made its way from the national mall up on 17th street here to the white house and we can hear some of those sounds on the north lawn, behind me the white house still very hard at work on the government shutdown, president trump in washington today and obviously as we have heard working the phones is as staff continues to monitor these pictures as well are anita vogul on the ground in los angeles as the march there continues. hi, anita? >> well, hi there, leland, kind of perfect condition for march today. sunny and cool. the march here started about an hour ago. thousands of marchers started 5

blocks away from here in landmark spot in la known as persian square, they will march through streets of la and end up over here to my left where the grand stands are and hear from a number of speakers. the organizers of the march are building this as women's march but also having people talk about all kinds of things, disability rights, a number of other topics. you might remember last area this march drew a lot of people, 750,000 people into the streets of downtown los angeles, most of them here to protest the election of donald trump, this year, we are seeing a lot of the same thing with an emphasis really on getting out the vote knowing that those midterm election wills happen later this year, the mantra today is march and vote first. >> setting example for my daughters to stand up and fight

for their rights an not take crap from anyone even the president of the united states. >> part of our message is get out there, vote, participate because certain things wouldn't happen if people had voted the first time. >> you don't vote, you can't complain. >> okay. >> we are expecting about a smaller crowd this year, about 200,000 people are supposed to be out here today. we will be out here throughout the day and we will bring you the latest as it happens. leland back to you. leland: anita in los angeles, thank you. the president tweeting about the march complimenting himself on the lowest female unemployment, get out and march, more from sarah sanders from the white house when america's news headquarters continues. the coff. the coff. because the volcanic soil is amazing. making the coffee erupt with flavor. so we give farmers like win more plants. to grow more delicious coffee. that erupts with even more flavor. which helps provide for win's family. and adi the goat's family too.

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kelly: fox news alert, uncle sam turns off the lights. while that is going on, women in nationwide are marching for women inequality. i'm kelly wright. >> i'm julie banderas. women, millions of women across the nation take to the streets to march for greater political power. many federal agencies are closing amid a government shutdown which began at midnight this morning, most essential groups like our troops will report